03-05-2024, 01:12 PM
(03-05-2024, 01:06 PM)pally Wrote: Jungle primaries such as those in California, open primaries, and ranked-choice voting all can lessen the power of incumbency as it removes the strength of the extreme partisan voters who dominate the electorate in closed primary elections
All the primary in CA does is allow the Dems to expand on their monopoly on state politics, to everyone's extreme detriment. Any time a single party becomes too entrenched in a state bad things happen. You no longer have to appease a reasonable middle, you have to out extreme each other.
